Events Date 1925 December | History by KabAstro

Dec 1 Peace Treaty of Locarno signed between Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy
Dec 5 CFL Grey Cup, Landsdowne Park, Ottawa: Ottawa Senators win first title; beat Winnipeg Tammany Tigers, 24-1

Event of Interest

Dec 5 Hans Luther forced to resign as Chancellor and head of the German Weimar government

Dec 6 Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)
Dec 6 Record 73,000 pay to watch Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
Dec 7 Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St NYC

Easy Virtue

Dec 7 Noël Coward's play "Easy Virtue" premieres in NYC

Playwright, Director and Singer Noël Coward

The Cocoanuts

Dec 8 George S. Kaufman and Irving Berlin's musical "The Cocoanuts" starring the Marx Brothers opens at the Lyric Theatre, NYC; runs for 276 performances

Ban Johnson's Extended Contract

Dec 9 AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 & raises to $40,000

Founder of Baseball's American League Ban Johnson

Dec 9 Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000

Shaw Awarded Literature Nobel

Dec 10 Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

Quas Primas

Dec 11 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas

Dec 12 Arthur Heinman coins term "motel" from motor hotel; opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo

Last Shah Deposed

Dec 12 Last Qajar Shah of Iran is deposed; Reza Shah Pahlavi takes over

Medina Surrenders

Dec 12 Medina surrenders to Saudi forces led by Sultan Abdulaziz Ibn Saud

Dec 14 Alban Berg's first opera, "Wozzeck" premieres at the Berlin State Opera.
Dec 15 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden, NYC: Montreal Canadiens 3, NY Americans 1
Dec 15 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
Dec 16 Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity is founded at Lafayette College.
Dec 17 Colonel William "Billy" Mitchell court-martialed for insubordination
Dec 17 Soviet Union & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
Dec 17 Sultan Abdulaziz Ibn Saud conquers Jeddah, the last major stand of the Hashemites against the Saudis
Dec 20 National Football League Championship: Chicago Cardinals (11-2-1) win controversial first past the post title; Pottsville Maroons suspended after playing unsanctioned game
Dec 21 "Battleship Potemkin", Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy and Grigori Aleksandrov, premieres in Moscow
Dec 21 Test batsman Hunter "Stork" Hendry scores career best unbeaten 325 for Victoria against New Zealand in drawn tour match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Dec 26 1st East-West Shrine Bowl game of college football 'all-stars' played before 25,000 fans at Ewing Park, San Francisco. Proceeds continue to benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children.
Dec 26 NY Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates set an NHL record by recording a combined 141 shots on goal in Americans' 3-1 win; Roy Worters makes incredible 70 saves for Pittsburgh and Jake Forbes has 67 for NY
Dec 26 The Communist Party of India is founded